Not much happening at the moment. I did have Lydia send in the copy for the first ad to the newspaper. I called them this morning to make sure it had been recieved. The lady was actuallyabout to call me to verify the details and now everything is set for the first ad to be run next week.
However, I am getting a little nervous waiting for entries. My brother who is a teen and takes art hasn't been told about the art show by his teachers yet and neither has one of the pages who I asked. The show is a little more than a month away and I really hope entries or at least questions start coming in soon.
In other news, Blick Art is not a happy company to deal with if you are a tax exempt organization, but I think everything is finally settled. The lengths I go to for sidewalk paint!
08 May 2009
01 May 2009
Letters, letters, and more letters!
While I have been keeping a journal in a Word document as I work on this art show, I thought this might be a better way to share progress with everyone on what I am doing and what the heck is going on! This blog will start rather midway through the process, so be aware: a lot has happened to get to this point.
I spent the day going through the local Chamber of Commerce to decide which organizations I wanted to send invitations to for the actual show. As I was going through I attempted to sort the organizations into different categories. Instead of being helpful, this only gave me three random documents with lists of organization names and addresses. However, I did have the brilliant idea to send letters to church youth ministries to see if they would share the art show with their teens. I wrote a letter and sent it to 17 different local churches, plus another local youth organization, along with a copy of the art show submission form.
I really don't know if the churches will respond, but the more this art show develops the more I feel I should be as inclusive as possible. If anyone has any suggestions for other types of organizations to contact, I would be willing to send them a letter as well. As for the rest of the Chamber of Commerce list...I do have a good few organization in mind to invite to the actual show. In addition, I am tempted to contact some local business for donations to sweeten the prize pot a little. I will write more on what I decide on that front as I try to make sense of my three seperate lists.
Also, I did call the paper today and I have the email address of where I need to send our copy to for the ad to be run on May 13th. It has to be in by May 8th! I also might need to order more blue paper for submission forms and more notecards to print on...but those are my random thoughts on things I need to keep in mind.
Until next time...
I spent the day going through the local Chamber of Commerce to decide which organizations I wanted to send invitations to for the actual show. As I was going through I attempted to sort the organizations into different categories. Instead of being helpful, this only gave me three random documents with lists of organization names and addresses. However, I did have the brilliant idea to send letters to church youth ministries to see if they would share the art show with their teens. I wrote a letter and sent it to 17 different local churches, plus another local youth organization, along with a copy of the art show submission form.
I really don't know if the churches will respond, but the more this art show develops the more I feel I should be as inclusive as possible. If anyone has any suggestions for other types of organizations to contact, I would be willing to send them a letter as well. As for the rest of the Chamber of Commerce list...I do have a good few organization in mind to invite to the actual show. In addition, I am tempted to contact some local business for donations to sweeten the prize pot a little. I will write more on what I decide on that front as I try to make sense of my three seperate lists.
Also, I did call the paper today and I have the email address of where I need to send our copy to for the ad to be run on May 13th. It has to be in by May 8th! I also might need to order more blue paper for submission forms and more notecards to print on...but those are my random thoughts on things I need to keep in mind.
Until next time...
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